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Essays and notes on identity, platform design, cloud systems, and agentic AI.
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A few posts that explain how I think about secure platforms, identity, and AI.
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2026
From Periodic Reviews to Continuous Governance
tech
The IETF is now working on agent authentication. Here is what that means.
aiidentitysecurityleadership
Weekend engineering: smarter AI pipeline alarms and upgrading to Claude Sonnet 4.6 with extended thinking
cloudaidevops
Governing Autonomous Agents Is a Platform Problem
aileadership
Pen Testing My Own Infrastructure: What I Found When I Attacked My Own Stack
securitycloud
Operational Excellence: Ten Dives Into a Production Personal Site
clouddevopssecurity
Agents Are Not Software
aileadership
Teaching the Blog Agent to See: Conceptual Diagrams and Visual Thinking
aicloud
The Conversation After: Agentic AI Needs a Platform Mindset
aileadership
Upgrading the Blog Agent: Sonnet 4.6, Web Search, and Bug Fixes
aicloud
A Sunday Well Spent: Auditing and Hardening My Personal Cloud Infrastructure
cloudsecuritydevops
I Built an AI Agent That Writes, Revises, and Publishes to My Blog
cloudaileadership
Migrating My Personal Site from Jekyll to Astro
clouddevops
Why Agentic AI Needs a Platform Mindset, Not Just Better Prompts
aicloudleadership
2025
2022
Earlier Writing (2017–2019)
Older notes from earlier chapters. Kept for archival purposes.
2017
Buying Bitcoin in Canada
blockchain
Coinbase Shutting Down Bitcoin Trading, is it even legal?
blockchain
Beyond Bitcoin: What is Ethereum?
blockchain
Understanding Blockchain
blockchain
Top 10 Cryptos
blockchain
But how can I get Bitcoins
blockchain
What is Bitcoin, and why should I care?
blockchain
What is Cloud?
cloud
Digital Signage Solution with Raspberry Pi
devops